Monday, February 13, 2006

Skate or Die, dude. (Brent, do you remember that Nintendo game?)

Juan Tomur Silveira, 17; Guilherme Felipe Portes, 15; and Rodrigo Pectro de Souza, 21 put on a personal skate show along the coast of São José as I had a good time and photographed.

Here are some of the cooler pics:
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Earlier in the day I went to run a few errands and brought along my camera. Stopped by the bank to get some money, got some lunch at McDonalds, and then decided to continue walking down one of the main avenues, President Kennedy. Towards the end of the avenue is a nice walking path along the beach, a playground, and a skate park. When I got there only two little kids were playing around on the skate park, but as I was leaving, Guilherme arrived and was eager to get his two friends so I could shoot them skating. A half out later, they arrived, and the pictures are the results.

Juan was eager to get the pictures, so he invited me back to his house so I could load the pictures directly on to his computer. Over the few hours photographing them we had become friends and I trusted them – I didn’t feel any danger going to Juan’s apartment; the other two came along, too. It took a while to figure out how to get my pics onto his computer (I couldn’t find a program to load the pics), but we finally got it working. Unfortunately, when the pictures loaded onto his computer, they erased from my card… ha, so now I had to put the pictures I wanted back on my jump-drive.

Before I ran my errands, I stopped by the SRE and made some important phone calls and organized a few things. We have been receiving calls from a few companies letting us know they have job openings, so we have to take that information and pass it on to the local leaders.